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Monday, July 30, 2012

Banana Bars with Browned Butter Glaze

Happy Monday! Did you enjoy your weekend? Did you watch the opening ceremony? I did and loved every minute. Then, in between my projects around the house, and getting ready for some summer guests I watched the swimming, the volleyball, the rowing, and many other games.

I also baked. I know that is a surprise.

I have been out on Pinterest, and have seen this banana bar recipe pinned many times; as I always have a few bananas laying around waiting for a recipe I thought I would try them. Boy am I happy I did! They were FABULOUS!

Heat oven to 375F. Grease and flour 15x10-inch jelly roll pan. For the bars, in a large bowl, beat together sugar, sour cream, butter, and eggs until creamy. Blend in bananas and vanilla extract. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and blend for 1 minute. Stir in walnuts(optional). Spread batter evenly into pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Frosting:

Heatbutterin a large saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let the butter turn a delicate brown and remove from heat immediately. Add powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. Mix until smooth. Immediately spread over the cake while warm, it spreads much easier.

As I said, these bars are delicious, they are moist and a little dense like banana bread. But the browned butter glaze puts these bars over the top. The glaze is sweet and a little salty from the browned butter and the little bits of browned butter are flecked in the glaze so it looks pretty too.

Notes: I did not add the walnuts because I do not like them. Also, the next time I am going to make more glaze, I would have liked more but that is just me (the recipes is more than enough). When making the glaze be careful with the butter, if you do not watch it, it will burn. And for my cake and oven setting 20 minutes was the correct amount of time.

I hope that you all have a great week! I am going to try but I will not lie, I have been beaten by the heat! I cannot stand it this hot for this long, sorry to be a whiner but I needed to vent.

Come back and tell me if you try these bars please, I love when people make the same things I do and then put a twist on the recipes. By the way, this banana cake recipe which I made awhile ago and pined to my Pinterest page is apparently quite popular because it has received 26,589 hits on my blog! Yes, I did write 26,589! Isn't that crazy? I guess it is like they say, "the power of a pin."

18 comments:

Oh yes, we are watching as much of the games as we can get; our reception is not good here, but the gymnastics are our favorites. I best not show Ruben these bars or else I will be baking today, and it is too hot for that!!!!

How are you? Busy still? ME TOO. I have another house guest coming NEXT WEDNESDAY FOR A WEEK!!!!!!!

I have been watching the Olympics, and really enjoying them. Your banana cake looks amazing and I will have to try it. Amazing about pinterst! I have not joined but want to after hearing so much enthusiasm about it. Have a great week! Those photos have made me very hungry. I hope you can stay cool!

Hey, I enjoyed your post. Lovely use of bananas I found it via Stone Gable's On the Menu Monday. I have linked in some rhubarb and banana jam I made to use up some bananas that were turning brown. Have a nice week.

Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe last week with Wednesday's Adorned From Above. The link party is open now for this week.Just follow this link.http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/08/apple-cinnamon-roll-pull-aparts-and.htmlDebi Bolocofskywww.adornedfromabove.com

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